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STIMATE FEST.100th SOVCOM AUCTION POSTER AUCTION EXHIBITIONS Tatiana Markina, Kommersant – Weekend, No. 18 (114) dd. 15.05.2009

SOVCOM AUCTION HOUSE has been regularly conducting auctions in Moscow for already five years – and now the hundredth,anniversary one is by the head. The history of Sovcom, originally aimed at Soviet painting, is glorious and rich in events. Two names – Alexander Savokhvalov and Alexander Deyneka will be among the main ones during the forthcoming anniversary auction. Deynka's still-life "Lilac" will be for sale again (the one from the first auction), now the painting is estimated as $300-500 thousands. Such precipitous price inflation of the Soviet painting – is to a great extend a result of Sovcom's efforts. Alexander Samokhvalov's landscape "Moscow. Bitzevskiy park" of 1939-1940 has the same estimation. Auction catalogue is adorned by Petr Konchalovskiy's "Gurzuf. Mountain scene", 1929 – a vast canvas, estimated $380-430 thousands. Yuriy Pimenov's small painting "The morning of a new day" is saturated with the same mood and freshness of freshly washed streets, once found by the artist ($90-140 thousands). At the auction there will be exhibited quite a number of painters, representing Leningrad artistic groups, whose works are rare to see and buy in Moscow. Works of the members of "The Circle of Artists" union, antagonists of Moscow OST, are sold at modest prices. Obviously, the works of the members of Leningrad "Group 11" – Vitaliy Tyulenev and German Egoshin – will get to the public auction for the first time. Sovcom would be a Dutchman, if Sovcom would do without the real authentic social realism. A great canvas (3 x 6 m) of the Stalinskiy award laureate Gavriil Gavrilov "Lenin's speech before the artworkers" will be presented at the auction. The painting is estimated $70-100 thousands. For the fans of social realism, who doesn't have walls 6 meters wide, more compact variants are selected. For example, Igor Kabanov's touching genre "After the shift" (1953, $15-25 thousands), or Nora Aleksander's two painting, depicting cute working women of "Bolshevik" factory (1954, $3-4 thousands per each). Sovcom, May,20, 19/00

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